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Mars Daily Editorial Team

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The Mars Daily Editorial Team produces Mars Daily's coverage of Mars exploration and science. We report on rovers and orbiters, sample-return and human-Mars planning, and the geology, atmosphere and astrobiology of the Red Planet. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Mars Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Mars Express Unveils Lumpy Ionosphere And Glimpses Of Martian Subsurface

Iowa City IA (SPX) Dec 01, 2005 - University of Iowa Space Physicist Don Gurnett and his UI colleagues report that a scientific instrument aboard the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft has so far revealed that Mars' ionosphere - part of the upper atmosphere - is very lumpy and complex, and that the instrument can see hidden craters and thick layers of ice beneath the planet's surface.

Dec 1, 2005

NASA Rover Helps Reveal Possible Secrets Of Martian Life

Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 30, 2005 - Life may have had a tough time getting started in the ancient environment that left its mark in the Martian rock layers examined by NASA's Opportunity rover. The most thorough analysis yet of the rover's discoveries reveals the challenges life may have faced in the harsh Martian environment.

Nov 30, 2005

Readying For The Ninth International Mars Society Convention

Washington DC (SPX) Nov 30, 2005 - The Mars Society was founded to further the exploration and settlement of the Red Planet. The International Mars Society convention presents a unique opportunity for those interested in Mars to come together and discuss the technology, science, social implications, and philosophy of Mars exploration.

Nov 30, 2005

Opportunity Views Windblown Ripple ‘Scylla’

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 29, 2005 - These images were acquired by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity using its panoramic camera on sol 644 (November 15, 2005) and its navigation camera on sol 645 (November 16, 2005, pictured).

Nov 29, 2005

Mars Rovers Just Keeps Going And Going

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 28, 2005 - Spirit, the untiring robotic wonder child sent by NASA to explore the eerily earthlike fourth planet from the sun, has completed one martian year - that's almost two Earth years - on Mars.

Nov 28, 2005

Deadline Approaching For Student Mars Rover Competition

Houston TX (SPX) Nov 24, 2005 - Hoping to heat up the competition, the University of Houston is giving Houston-area schools until Tuesday, Nov. 29 to enter the Fourth Annual Mars Rover Competition.

Nov 24, 2005

Spirit Marks One Martian Year Of Surface Exploration

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 22, 2005 - Spirit, the untiring robotic wonder child sent by NASA to explore the eerily earthlike fourth planet from the sun, has completed one martian year - that's almost two Earth years - on Mars.

Nov 22, 2005

MIT Researchers Visit Mars On Earth

Cambridge MA (SPX) Nov 22, 2005 - At 75 degrees north latitude, Devon Island lies high above the Arctic Circle, a few hundred miles from the magnetic North Pole. A true polar desert, it is also the largest uninhabited island on Earth. But the reach of MIT extends even here.

Nov 22, 2005

Opportunity Gets A Timely Dust Off And Regains Energy At The Four-Mile Mark

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 22, 2005 - Opportunity is healthy. The solar array was apparently cleaned again on sol 638. Average solar array energy is around 720 watt-hours after the cleaning event!

Nov 22, 2005

Spirit Observes Debris Trail Of Halley’s Comet

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 21, 2005 - Spirit is healthy and making good progress downhill. The rover performed an extensive campaign with the tools on the robotic arm at an outcrop called Larry's Bench and made targeted observations with other instruments.

Nov 21, 2005

The View Of The ‘East Basin’ From Husband Hill

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 21, 2005 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its panoramic camera to obtain this view of the impact feature called East Basin to the northeast of Husband Hill.

Nov 21, 2005

Mars-Bound NASA Craft Tweaks Course, Passes Halfway Point

Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 21, 2005 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter successfully fired six engines for about 20 seconds last Friday to adjust its flight path in advance of its March 10, 2006, arrival at the red planet.

Nov 21, 2005

Mars Express’ MARSIS Team Focus On Upper Atmosphere

Paris (ESA) Nov 18, 2005 - For the four month operational period up to now, Mars Express has been making its closest approaches to Mars predominantly in the daytime portion of its orbit. The MARSIS radar's scientists are mainly collecting data about the upper layers of the Martian atmosphere, or 'ionosphere', which is the highly electrically conducting layer that is maintained by sunlight.

Nov 18, 2005

A Closer Look At Kalavrita

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 16, 2005 - These four images were taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on sols 632 and sol 633 (Nov. 3 and 4, 2005) before and after using the rock abrasion tool on sol 633 to grind into a rock target dubbed Kalavrita.

Nov 16, 2005

‘Mars-Shine’

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 16, 2005 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit continues to take advantage of favorable solar power conditions to conduct occasional nighttime astronomical observations from the summit region of Husband Hill.

Nov 16, 2005

Observing The Outcrops

Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 14, 2005 - Opportunity is healthy and is observing outcrops of Erebus Crater. The rover used the tools on its robotic arm to examine an outcrop area named Olympia.

Nov 14, 2005